Nothing say “ epic destiny ” like a huge prophecy . When a hero hear amystical - ish person intoning that he or she is destined to set everythingright , that ’s when adventure comes a - career . But sometimes these things don’tquite work out . Here are 10 heroical prophecies that were n’t quite what peoplehad hoped .
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In this 2006romance manga , Yuuhiis an ordinary scholarly person when a talk lizard comes to him and tells him thathe ’s actually a horse , and he ’s intend to rescue a princess , and to save theentire world from an malefic champion . Too bad Yuuhikindof hates the worldand is n’t concerned in saving it — and it ’s evenworse , when it reverse out that the princess , too , hates everything . They terminate upteaming up to destroy the world , instead of saving it .
In this fantasy trilogy , there ’s a vast prophecy about theHero of Ages , who will defeat the Deepness . The Hero of Ages supposed to takepower from the Well of Ascension and then give it up again . Hero after herotries to live up to these prognostication — but it turns out they ’re actuallycompletely falsified , and the real Big Bad has used them to misrepresent peopleto its own ends .
There ’s much hustle about the divination that Kai will destroyHis Divine Shadow , but inthe end this is carry out by a clustering lounge lizard larva appoint Squish instead , although at least Kai is present when this happen .
To be honorable , I ’m still indecipherable on how Benjamin Sisko , theEmissary , stopped the Pah - Wraiths and save up the Prophets — but it ’s prettyclear his prophesied role is n’t as clear - cut as it first appears . For onething , he ’s not someone who was just choose to fulfill this prophecy , becausewe finally notice out his mom was actually hijacked by a Prophet when he wasconceived . But also , one matter Sisko doesn’tdo is bring about the calculation , the great conflict between the Prophets and thePah - Wraiths — in which his son , Jake , is supposed to die for the grounds . Themain prophecy about Sisko seems to be that he ’ll make this happen , butthenthe Reckoning gets borked and hestill gets to defeat the Pah - Wraiths a dissimilar way .
In this classic arc , the precog judges omen thatMega - City One will be destroyed , unless Judge Dredd can receive a sure specialmutant nestling with an bird of Jove on his forehead , who will save everybody . Too badthe Judge Child is kind of a psychotic , huh ? It change state out that the Judge Childwill actually ruin everybody , not save everybody . Oops .
Will Norrington , a cunning thief , is preach to be thehero who will spare everybody — until he dies halfway through the trilogy . Oops .
AsGreg Pakpointsout , Metis prophesies that one of Zeus ’ tiddler will overturn him , and thisis probably Athena . And usually in Greek mythology , prophecy are ironclad , and will follow to pass no matter what you do . But this metre around , Zeuscompletely escapes this prophecy , which never come to pass — at least not inGreek mythology . In both DC Comics and Marvel Comics , Zeus has gottenoverthrown , let in in Pak ’s own IncredibleHercules . Although maybe strip are n’t canyon as far as mythology goes ?
In the Matrixmovies , Neo is The One , who ’s supposed to defeat the machines and save everyone — except that the Oracle who tell him this prophecy is actually a program , and the vaticination is sort of a fake . He ’s actually opine to reboot theMatrix , as the previous iterations of The One have done before him . At least , that ’s what Colonel Sanders seems to be saying in that one lengthy scene withthe video screens . In the oddment , Neo does sort of save the great unwashed , but he doesn’tfree everyone from the Matrix and both he and Trinity have to die .
Angel has this prophecy that he ( or possibly Spike ) would savethe world and either die or become human as a reward . Instead , Angel becomes anevil practice of law house ’s middle - managing director , brings the apocalypse to LA ( but only LA),turns into a cloak serial killer , has such terrible gender with Buffy that hecreates a whole universe and then kills misfortunate Giles .
Anakin is prophesied to “ bring equipoise to theForce ” — and he in reality does this , by killing all the Jedi including aton of kids . And causing the last of his wife . And blowing up Alderaan . Andkilling countless others . Although , is a situation where Luke is the onlyForce - user in the galaxy really “ Libra ” ?
Additional reportingby Emily Stamm . Thanks also to Emma C. Moore , Greg Pak , Tarin Towers , Nicholas Slayton , June Weiss , Tim Carmody , Jamie Wyman , and everybody else whohelped . Sources : Giant in thePlayground Forums , NaNoWriMo , AbsoluteWrite , TheEscapist
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